Jennings signed with the Shanxi Brave Dragons in July after eight NBA seasons playing for five teams, including four stops since undergoing surgery on his torn left Achilles tendon in January 2015. So, Pierce, one of the league’s premier trash-talkers over the past two decades, went looking for Jennings:

This was no friendly gesture. This was Pierce relishing in Jennings being relegated to China.

Why would a 10-time All-Star and one of the NBA’s 15 most prolific scorers concern himself with a journeyman who has shot less than 40 percent for his career? Funny you should ask. In the hours after Pierce played the final game of a 19-year career, rightfully receiving a parade of praise from his NBA brethren, Jennings instead took to Twitter to call the 2008 Finals MVP’s resume into question:

A couple weeks later, when Jennings tweeted that he would be spending an afternoon on New York City’s West Fourth Street Courts, Pierce said on ESPN’s “The Jump,” “Man, he needs to stay there. The way he performed in the playoffs this year, he might as well just go all year round on Fourth Street.”

That was quite the roast of a guy who averaged 2.8 points off the bench for the Washington Wizards during a playoff run this past spring that ended in a loss to the Celtics. And Pierce wasn’t done yet.